“Je n’ai point ambitionnée d’être neuf”: Modern Geometry in Early Nineteenth-Century French Textbooks

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-01617-3_4zbMath1423.97003OpenAlexW2910661209MaRDI QIDQ5241553

Jemma Lorenat

Publication date: 31 October 2019

Published in: Interfaces between Mathematical Practices and Mathematical Education (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01617-3_4

zbMATH Keywords

projective geometrypractical geometrymodern geometrynineteenth-century French mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics education (97-03) Comprehensive works on geometry education (97G10) Textbooks, textbook research (aspects of mathematics education) (97U20)

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